206 FLIGHT International, 24 January 1981 W rid news
Lowest Icao traffic growth for ten years
PRELIMINARY statistics from the
International Civil Aviation Organisa
tion* underline the world airline in
dustry's unhappy performance in 1980.
Scheduled passengers carried, pas
senger-kilometres performed and total
tonne-kilometres performed show the
smallest growth figures for any year
in the 1971-80 period (see table).
Passenger-load factor actually fell by
three points, following nine years of
unbroken growth. Air-freight traffic
showed the second-lowest increase of
the decade.
Even the oil-related recession of
1974-75 did not affect scheduled pas
senger statistics and total traffic as
badly as last year's slump. The pas
senger figure for 1979, originally esti
mated at 745 million, has been trim
med to 735 million and the 1980 first
estimate is the same as that for 1979.
The sharp fall in passenger load fac
tor reflects the outstripping of traffic
by capacity (available seat-kilometres
up by 6X2 per cent; passenger-kilo
metres performed up by only 2 per
cent).
*Icao, 1000 Sherbrooke Street West. Montreal P.Q., Canada. H3A 2B2 telephone [514] 285-8220/1/2.
WORLD SCHEDULED REVENUE TRAFFIC (Percentage change on previous year in brackets)*
Year Passengers
carried
Freight
tonnes
carried
Passenger-km
performed
Seat-km available Passenger
load factor
Tonne-km performed
Freight Mail Total
(Passengers and
baggage, freight,
& mail)
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
411 (7)
450 (9)
489 (8)
515(5)
534 (4)
576 (8)
610(6)
679(11)
735 (9)
745(1-5)
6-7
7-3(9)
8-2 (13)
8-7(5)
8-7(0)
9-3(7)
10-3(10)
10-6 (3)
10-8(2)
11-2(3-5)
494,000 (10)
560,000 (13)
618,000(10)
656,000 (6)
697,000 (6)
762 000 (9)
818,000 (7)
936,000(14)
1,048,000(12)
1,070,000 (2 0)
914,000
981,000 (7)
1,073,000 (9)
1,108,000(3)
1,719,000(6)
1,268,000(8)
1,346,000 (6)
1,451,000 (8)
1,590,000(10)
1,690,000(6-5)
54
57
58
59
59
60
61
65
66
63
13.230
15,020(14)
17,530(17)
19,020(8)
19,370 (2)
21,450(11)
23,620 (10)
25,940 (10)
28,050 (8)
29,100(3-5)
2,900
2,780 (-4)
2,880 (4)
2,880 (0)
2,900(1)
3,030 (4)
3,180(5)
3,270 (3)
3,430 (5)
3 700(7-9)
60,470
88,170
75,780
80,700
84,780
93,050
100,400
113,540
125,800
129 000
(13)
(11)
(6)
(5)
(10)
(8)
(13)
(11)
(2-5)
*AJ1 figures in millions, except passenger load factor. Source: Icao.
Alpha jets
for Egypt
EGYPT has ordered 30 Dassault-
Breguet/Dornier Alpha Jet trainer/
light-attack aircraft. The country's
eventual requirement could exceed
150 and licence manufacture seems
likely. Egypt is the ninth customer
for the Alpha Jet and orders now
total 516.
The aircraft is in service with the
French, German, Belgian, Ivory Coast,
Moroccan and Qatar Air Forces and
the 200th example was delivered late
last year. Production rate is 12 a
month from assembly lines in France
and Germany.
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Russia's llyushin 11-86 widebody has entered scheduled service with Aeroflot. Shown here is an 11-86
after a two-hour route-proving flight between Moscow and Mineralnye Vody. First scheduled
route for the type is between Moscow's Vnufcovo Airport and Tashkent, operated three times a
week
BAe chief calls for greater productivity
THE main problem facing British
Aerospace is international recession,
chairman Sir Austin Pearce tells em
ployees. Germany, the United States
and many other countries are reduc
ing government expenditure, he says,
and BAe must get a better share of
the market: "We can do this if we
have the determination." The manu
facturer has to face up to a strong
Pound in the next three or more years
and that is another problem to be
solved, according to Pearce.
"We have to produce more for the
same cost," he says when asked what
individual employees can do to help.
After BAe has paid for raw materials,
more than 80 per cent of income goes
as wages and salaries. "The figure is
below 70 per cent in the case of our
American competitors and we have
to get down near their levels. If
BAe wants more business it has to
find way of reducing prices," Pearce
says.
It is important that the BAe 146
"flies in May as we forecast" so that
customers have the confidence to buy
it. Apart from the 125 and 748—"the
old faithfuls"—there is the A300 on
the civil side where, according to
Pearce, the manufacturer sees the
first prospect of improved penetration.
BAe is working hard to sell the
Hawk and Pearce wants to seize more
opportunities to sell Harrier, Jaguar
and Tornado. The company has a lot
of opportunities to go after in selling
the Rapier guided weapon and other
systems, he says.
Industrial spirit in the company is
"pretty good. What the management
has to do is to go after those sales
targets and get the sales, and the
production people have to back up
by producing what's required, when,
and at the competitive price."